Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe • General Comment No. 7 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2005) on Implementing child rights in early childhood • General comment No. 15 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2013) on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (Article 24) • General comment No. 20 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2016) on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence • UNHCR, Best Interests Procedure Guidelines (2021) • Standing Committee of European Doctors, Statement on the independence of the medical profession (2024) • UNHCR and UNICEF, Background Note on Sex Discrimination in Birth Registration (2021) • Human Rights Committee, D.Z. v. Netherlands (2021) • European Convention on Human Rights, Articles 8 & 14 • 1997 European Convention on Nationality • Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec (2009) 13 on the Nationality of Children • Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Resolution 2099 (2016) on the need to eradicate statelessness of children Council of Europe • European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) General Policy Recommendation No. 16 (2016) on safeguarding irregularly present migrants from discrimination • 2006 Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State Succession (CASRSS) • European Court of Human Rights, G.T.B. v. Spain (2023) • European Court of Human Rights, D.B. and others v. Switzerland (2022) • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union • European Parliament Resolution on the Protection of Children in Migration (2018) • European Parliament Minimum Standards for Minorities in the EU (2020) • 1967 European Convention on Consular Functions: Article 46 • European Parliament Resolution on children’s rights on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (2019) • European Parliament Resolution on LGBTIQ rights in the EU (2021) • Court of Justice of the European Union, V.M.A. v Bulgaria, Case C-490/20 (2021) European Union 5